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Meika

Gender
Girl
Say it
MY-kuh
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Meika is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

Where does Meika come from?

Hebrew: probably a form of Meike, a Frisian and Dutch pet form of Maria

Is Meika a girl's or a boy's name?

Meika is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Meika in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 12 girls.

2007Busiest: 12 in 20082019
Meika in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20193#5,804
20180–
20171#7,682
20160–
20150–
20143#5,920
20136#3,719
20123#6,108
20114#4,980
20101#7,520
20093#5,801
200812#2,156
20077#3,060

How popular is Meika in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Meika, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2010, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.

Half of all the girls named Meika in the US since 1880 were born between 1987 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1969Busiest: 28 in 20102025
Meika in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
20229#10,377
202114#7,625
20205#15,083
201913#8,134
201814#7,758
201715#7,438
201621#5,983
201527#4,979
201416#7,300
201325#5,315
201223#5,707
201128#4,913
201028#4,972
200925#5,535
200818#7,069
200715#8,094
200617#7,140
200519#6,240
20047#12,754
20035#15,777
20026#13,589
20010–
20008#10,738
19995#14,403
19987#11,132
199710#8,329
19965#13,511
19956#11,778
19949#8,798
19936#11,773
19920–
19910–
199014#6,125
19898#8,755
19885#11,792
19878#7,982
19868#7,745
19857#8,315
19840–
19830–
19827#8,222
19817#8,126
19808#7,417
197914#4,841
19788#6,946
197711#5,530
19765#9,282
197511#5,159
197427#2,683
19739#5,578
197214#4,091
197110#5,134
19700–
19697#5,972

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Meika: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meika, updated 20 October 2026.